This Week in SA
The Student Association held its third meeting of the semester Tuesday evening. The number of senators needed to make quorum was satisfied. The minutes from last meeting and the agenda for the current meeting were approved. There were three guests…
EPA recommends closing superfund site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to remove an Oswego County superfund location from its national registry. The Fulton Terminals Superfund site is located about 10 miles south of the city of Oswego on State Route 104 and is…
1st annual Mardi Gras event held in Marano Campus Center
Oswego State’s Campus Life hosted its very first “Mardi Gras: Bringing N’awlins to New York” last Tuesday. The event was sponsored by multiple organizations, including Campus Life, Student Association Programming Board, Student Association, Residence Life and Housing and Auxiliary Services….
Del Sarte seniors reflect on years of dancing at the brink of graduation
As graduation nears, college seniors reflect on their education. For the dancers of the Del Sarte Dance Club, dancing has been all they have known. Senior Christina Dehm started dancing when she was just 2-years-old in her mom’s dance studio….
Oswego State student charged with rape
An Oswego State student was arrested for first-degree rape today by University Police. Abhay Pant, 18, is a resident of Hart Hall from New Delhi, India. According to a statement from Julie Blissert, the director of Public Affairs, Pant allegedly…
Oswego State ranks No. 2 in drug arrests
New data from Project Know and the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education ranked Oswego State at No. 2 for drug-related arrests nationwide. Oswego State ranked only behind SUNY New Paltz, with approximately 12 narcotics arrests made for…
SA vice president resigns, Kranz steps up
Jillian Kranz, the Student Association Rules and Judiciary Committee chair, became the new SA vice president at the beginning of this semester. “It was a seamless transition,” SA President Tucker Sholtes said. “As soon as the semester started, Jillian hit…
SUNY presses state for bigger budget
SUNY leaders asked for a bigger budget in their testimonies to the New York State Assembly Committees on Ways & Means and Higher Education and Senate Committees on Finance and Higher Education in Albany last Tuesday. In November, the SUNY…
ResLife begins new housing selection rule
This year when students begin the room selection process for housing next year, they will notice a new step. Students now wishing to live anywhere on campus will have to complete mandatory in-person, pre-registration. Marie Driscoll Germain, the associate director…
Gillibrand persists fight on sexual assault
Recently, U.S Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) praised a national initiative in President Barack Obama’s budget to put more than $30 million in new resources to combat campus sexual assault. That amount would help fund an additional…
